Printing and numbering machine.



' N0. 804,303. PATENIED NOV. I4, 1905.

D. GARLAW, Sn., D. GARLAW, JB., A. L. CARLAW, & J. W. CARLAW.

PRINTING AND NUMBERING MACHINE.

APPLICATION FILED APB.. 28, 1904.

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APPLICATION FILED APR. 28. 1904.

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No. 004,303. PATENTED Nov. 14, 1000. D. CARLAW, sn., D. GARLAW, JR., A.L. GARLAW, & J. W. CARLAW.

PRINTING AND NUMBERING MACHINE.

APPLICATION FILED APR. 2s, 1904.

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D. GARLAW, sa., D. GARLAW, JE., A. L. GARLAW, & J. WfGARLAW.

PRINTING AND NUMBERING MACHINE.

APPLICATION FILED APBHZB. 1904.

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No. 804,803. PATENTED NOV. I4, 1905. D. OARLAW, SR., D. CARLAW, JR., A.L. GARLAW, & J. W. CARLAW.

PRINTING AND NUMBERING MACHINE. y

APPLICATION FILED APILZS, 1904.

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DAVID CARLAW, SR., DAVID CARLAW, JR., ALEXANDER LYLE CARLAW, AND JAMESW. CARLAW, OF GLASGOW, SCOTLAND.

PRINTING AND NUNIBERING IVIACHIN.

Specification of'Letters Patent.

Patented Nev. 14, 1905.

Application filed April 28, 1904. Serial No. 205.412.

To all whom it naa/y concern:

Be it known that we, DAVID CARLAW, Sr., DAVID CARLAW, Jr., ALEXANDERLYLE CAR- LAW, and J Aivrns WHITE CARLAW, engineers, subjects of theKing of Great Britain, all of 11 Finnieston street, Glasgow, Scotland,have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Printing andNumbering Machines,of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to improvements in rotary letter-press printingand numbering machines such as described in the specification of DavidCarlaws prior United States patent, No. 385,592, July 3, 1888. Themachine, which is mainly designed for printing and numbering countercheck-books, billheads, tickets, labels, and such like, works from areel of paper and delivers the sheets whole or cut and perforated andfolded.

The present invention comprises several improvements on and additions tothe original invention.

Under the present invention the machine is made with hollow printing andnumbering cylinders, having the numbering-wheel cases titted removablytherein and longitudinally of the cylinder, so that the numbering-wheelsrevolve in a plane at right angles to the plane of revolution of thecylinder. The numbering-wheels, which print through recesses' in thesurface of the cylinder, as before, are operated by drivingpawl-and-ratchet gear. The pawl is connected with a slide, from which astud projects. This stud works in a slot in a cam on a shaft whichextends longitudinally through the cylinder and is' turned at the propertimes by means of cam mechanism at the side of the machine, so as tomove the slide and actuate the pawl-and-ratchet gear and turn thenumbering-wheels. Retainingpawls are provided in connection with thenumbering-wheels, which latter may be constructed and arranged in asimilar manner to the numbering-wheels described in vspeciiication ofPatent N o. 385,592, of 1888'. Each set of numbering-wheels (fornumbering from l to or l to 100, Snc.) is contained within a case, whichis carried by and is adjustable (by means of a slot and pin or othersuitable arrangement) on a rectangular bar arranged longitudinallywithin the cylinder. In cases where it is desired to print salesmens orother numbers, as well as the ordinary consecutive numbers for thechecks,

the numbering-wheel case may carry also wheels arranged near theconsecutive-numbering wheels and adapted to print through the recess inthe cylinder the salesmens or other numbers. These wheels may be turnedby hand. Spring-pawls are provided for holding the wheels in position.There may be two sets of numbering-wheels arranged at opposite sides ofthe cylinder with shaftsand mechanism for operating them. Thenumbering-wheels on both sides of the cylinder would print throughrecesses in the cylindershells. If desired, there may be more than twosets. The printing-cylinder is made in parts, which are screwed in placein such manner that they can be removed and the wheel-cases, with theirwheels, removed for the purpose of being changed or for other desiredpurpose. We prefer to make th'e'cylinder with a solid body, having thejournals at the ends, and a part at each side, which .is removablyscrewed to the body. Mechanism for folding the sheets being printed andnumbered is or may be also provided on the machine. This mechanism mayconsist of two rollers with a vertically-moving folding-knife arrangedto work between. This knife, which is cut so as to clear the travelingtapes ofthe machine, is operated by cam mechanism so as to rise up atthe proper times and fold the paper being carried along by the tapes. yThe operating-cam can'be fixed by a feather to its shaft and can bealtered to suit the folding required. y

W'e provide the machine with a revolving hopper or collector for theprinted checks, sheets, or the like, being printed and (or) numbered,which consists of a wheel formed by two disks with a series of 'curvedblades vor partitions extending between the disks, so as to form aseries of radial chambers or hoppers. The partitions or blades-are'curved 'in a special manner, springing from the hubat a tangent theretoand then bending gradually outward to the circumference of the wheel.This collecting-hopper 'wheel receives the checks, sheets, &c., and'then discharges them onto the table or onto a belt leading to the tableor into a receptacle. The hopper-wheel may be driven by means ofworm-gear, which aetuates a cam, which, latter kicks at the propertimesa bell-crank and shifts a drivingpawl engaging with a ratchet-wheellon orl in Iop connection with the hopper-wheel, so as 'to thereof asmay be necessary for the clear -un- 4 lerstanding of the invention.

grammatic view showing the arrangement of `tapes 'for the folding anddelivering part of will lie therein in their proper sequential order, sothat as the hopper-wheel revolves and discharges the contents of eachchamber the checks, sheets, zc., are delivered ready to vbe boundtogether in books.

AWe will now proceed to more particularly describe the invention withreference to the yaccompanying sheets of drawings, which ,show, by wayof example, our improvements 'las adapted to a machine for printing andnumbering salesmens check-books.

Figure 1 is a general view of the machine, but simply showing orindicating such parts Fig. 2 is a diathe machine. Fig. 3 is a side viewof the mechanism for driving `the band 80. Fig. 4

Aisa side view of the folding-knife and its actuating mechanism. ,thefolding-knife.

Fig. 5 is a front view of Fig.y 6 is a front view of the kn'ifemechanism, Fig. 4. Fig. 7 is a front view of the cam-Wheel, Fig. 3. Fig.8 is a partlongitudinal section, Fig. 9 a cross-section on the line A A,Fig. 16, and Fig. 10 a cross-section on the line B B, Fig. 16, of one ofthe numbering-cylinders. These views are drawn to a scale twice as largeas Fig. 16. Fig. 1l is a side View of the cam 33. Fig. 12 is a frontview, Fig. 13 a cross-section, and Fig. 14 a plan View of anumbering-wheel case with its Fig. 15v

numbering-wlieels and accessories. is a sectional view looking at theopposite side of the case from Fig. 12 and taken on the line Z Z, Fig.13. Some of the parts are removed so as to clearly show the ratchetmechanism. l Fig. 16 is a plan view of one of the numbering-cylinders.Fig. 17 is adetail view of the rocking bar or shaft 34 and its cam. Fig.18 is a partial vertical section of the collecting-hopper wheel. Fig. 19is a front and back view of a leaf of a check-book printed in themachine.

Referring to the drawings, whereon the same reference characterswherever repeated indicate the same or similar parts, 1 is themachine-framing.

2 is the main shaft, which may be driven by belt-pulleys 3 or otherwise.This shaft drives, by means of any suitable and Wellknown arrangement ofgear-wheels, all the Various-cylinders of the machine.

4 is the paper web or roll, and m indicates the paper as it passesthrough the machine.

5 is a printing and numbering cylinder; 6, a cylinder for printing thesalesmens and book numbers on the iiy or duplicate sheet; 7 and 8,impression or blanket cylinders; 9, a cylinder for printing the stub andsalesmens numbers; 10 and 11, the perforating-cylinders; 12 and 13,gear-wheels, and 14 the shaft of the Wheel 13.

It will be seen by comparison of the specications that the presentmachine is similar in some respects to the machine described in thespecification No. 385,592, of 1888.

In our present invention each hollow printing and numbering or merelynumbering cylinder has, as shown at Figs. 8, 9, and 16, thenumberingwheel cases a iitted removably therein and longitudinally ofthe cylinder, so that the numbering-wheels revolve in a plane at rightangles to the plane of revolution of the cylinder. It will be seen thatthe cylinder at Fig. 16 is made with two recesses or openings 17 18,through which the printingteeth of the numbering-wheels a I) project, soas to print the sheets or checks, and it will also be clearly seen fromFigs. 8 and 9 that the numbering-Wheels are arranged u ponbars 39, whichrun longitudinally of the cylinder.

As shown clearly at Figs. 12, 13, 14, and 15, the numbering-wheels 19 20of the case fr have ratchets 21 22, and engaging with the l ratchets aredriving-pawls 23 24, which are retained in engagement with the teeth ofthe ratchets by springs 25. l

26 indicates retaining-pawls, and 26a the springs of said pawls. Thedriving-pawls are fulcrumed at 27 on a swinging arm 27, which is madedouble and hung loosely on the sleeve 28 Aof the bolt 29 of thewheel-case. The swinging arm is provided with a pin 30, with which a jaw31 on the slide 32 engages. This slide has a laterally-projecting stud37, which enters an oblique or curved slot 38 in the cam 33 of the rockbar or shaft 34. This bar extends longitudinally of the cylinder and oneof its ends is prolonged out through the cylinder and is provided withan arm or crank 35, which is acted on by cams 36 on the side of themachine-framing 1. The bar is also acted on by a torsion-spring 33,which is adapted to bring it back after each action of the cams 36. (SeeFigs. 16 and 17.) At each revolution of the numbering-cylinder the crank35 is rocked and the cam 33 moved so as to actuate the slide 32 andswinging arm 27 and move the pawls 23 24 and turn the ratchets 21 22 andnumbering-wheels 19 20.

Preferably when printing the leaves of salesmens check-books we makeeach numbering and printing cylinder of such a diameter that it willprint and number at each revolution two complete sheets, such as shownat Fig. 19. In order to number the sheets, We arrange two sets ofnumbering-wheels a a IOO IIO

in the circumference of the cylinder, one set at one side and the otherset at the opposite side, as shown at Figs. 8 and 9. In this case thereare, as shown, two cams 36 on the machine-framing, and at eachrevolution of the cylinder the bars 34 are rocked twice and thenumbering-wheels moved a tooth at each rock, so as to print a differentnumber after each movement.

We may when the paper web isabroad one print four or more sheets at eachrevolution, and in this case we lit more numbering-wheel cases in thecylinder in the same manner as the cases c a. Thus in Fig. 16 a rolleris shown for printing four sheets at each revolution-namely, two in thelength and two in the circumference. Two wheel-cases L (one at one sideand the other at the other side of the cylinder, as at Fig. 8) and twosimilar wheel-cases b effect the printing of the four sheets. The wheelsare all operated in the same manner and the sets of wheels a b on theone side of the cylinder are fitted onl the same bar 39 and operatedfrom the same bar or shaft 34, while the sets a b at the other side aresimilarly arranged. Of course the cylinders would be made and the wheelsarranged so as to print the greatest number of sheets out of the paperweb at each revolution.

It will be seen that each numbering-wheel case is fitted removably bymeans of the plate 15 and screws 16 on a rectangular bar 39, secured inthe interior of the hollow cylinder, and the numbering-wheel cases canbe adjusted in position on these bars by means of a slotted tongue 40 onthe case and a screwstud 41 which enters a hole in the bar.

The arrangement shown on the drawings is, as before stated, for printingand numbering salesmens check-books, and in doing this the traveling'paper strip or web@I is led from the roll 4 (see Fig. 1) over theguide-rollers 4a 4b to and between the letter-press printing-cylinder 5(but is not at this time printed by the cylinder) and the cylinder 6,which prints the salesmens and book numbers on the back of the sheets,(for the fly-leaf or duplicate see D, Fig. 19, where 452 is thesalesmans number and "2 the book-number,)and then down and between theimpression-cylinder 8 and the cylinder 9, which prints on the stub thestub and salesmens numbers, as at E, Fig. 19. Thereafter the web passesunder the cylinder 8 and up between the impression-cylinder 7 and theprinting-cylinder 5, and is printed on the front of the sheets with theletter-press, &c., and also with the salesmans number and thebook-number, as at F, Fig. 15. Then the web passes down again below andbetween the perforating-cylinders 10 11, (and is perforated,) from whichagain it travels to the folding and delivering mechanism, which will befully described hereinafter. As

will be seen from Fig. 19, each sheet constituting a leaf of thecheck-book consists of three portions-the front portion or leaf proper,A, the duplicate or ily-leaf B, and the stub C-and it is necessary thateach portion should be numbered alike and consecutively. The severalnumberings are performed by the numbering-cylinders 5, 6, and 9. Theconsecutive numbers for the leaves ofy the books are printed by thenumbering-wheels in the cases a a, (see Figs. 8 and 9,) while thesalesmens numbers are printed in the case of the leaf and its duplicate(A B, Fig. 19) by means of wheels arranged in acase fitted to the sideof each case t of the cylinders 5 and 6, as shown in dotted lines at e,Figs. 13 and 14. In the case of the stubnumbering cylinder 9 thesalesmans number is printed by wheels mounted at the rear instead of atthe side of the consecutive-number wheel-case a, as indicated in dottedlines at L, Fig. 15. The recesses in the cylinder are of course madelong enough and wide enough to permit the salesmens numberwheels toprint properly.

The vsalesmans number wheels may be turned by hand; but theconsecutive-numbering wheels are operated by the mechanism hereinbeforedescribed. The numberingwheels themselves are preferably made in thesame or a similar manner to the wheels described in the specification ofthe Patent No. 385,592, of 1888. The numbering-cylinders are made with asolid body 44, cast all in one piece, and with a bridge-piece 44a at thecenter and solid ends 44h, from which project the journals 45 46. Fittedinto this body are two side pieces 47 48, having the recesses 17 18therein, and which are removably screwed to the body by screws 49 at theends and center. The central screws enter holes in projections 44c onthe bridge. It will be readily seen that with this arrangement the sidepieces can be easily removed, so as lto give access to thenumbering-wheel cases.

The folding' mechanism consists of the rollers 50 51, with avertically-moving knife 52 IOO lIO

arranged between. This folding-knife is made,

as shown at Figs. 4 and 5, with a broad blade 3, which has a number ofvertical recesses 53, as shown, so as to clear the traveling tapes 54,which run on the rollers 55, 56, and 65". (See Fig. 2.) The under sideof the tapes is forced up by a crank-arm 57, so as to reduce the depthwhich it is necessary to make the recesses 53 as much as possible. Theknife is operated by means of acam-wheel 58 on the cam-shaft 59, whichis driven by bevelgear from the shaft 14. The cam has an elliptical race60 in it, (see Fig. 6,) in which a pin 6l on the knife 52 works. 62 isaguideplate on the knife and which slides on the or leaves are sunderedor separated and in this condition travel along the tapes 54. When asheet comes over the knife, the latter rises and catches it along thecentral line-t'. e. the line f, Fig. 19-between the duplicate or flysheet B and the original A and forces up and folds the sheet between therollers 50 51. band of tapes travels round the rollers 50 50a and asecond band of tapes round the rollers 51 51sL 51". The folded paper iscaught between these bands and pressed fiat and also carried forward anddelivered onto the table 67, as indicated by the arrow 68 at Fig. 2. Ofcourse the mechanism is very accurately timed to give this result. Thecam-wheel 58, which is simply keyed on its shaft, can be removed andchanged when desired to suit the folding require y The revolving hopperor collector for the printed checks, sheets, &c., may consist, as shownat Fig. 18, of a wheel 70, formed by two disks 71 71, arranged side byside and with a series of curved blades or partitions 72, extendingacross between the disks, so as to form a series of radialcompartmentsor hoppers. In the figure the side disk 7la is broken away,so as to show the compartments. As will be seen, each partition or blade72 springs at 7221 tangentially from the hub 73 for ashort distance andthen bends or curves gradually outward to the circumference of thewheel. 74 is the wheel-shaft, and it is revolved at the proper speed bymeans of the ratchet 75 and pawl 76, which latter is operated by theswinging lever 77, jointed to the connecting-rod 78, which latter isreciprocated by a cam or equivalent mechanism operated by the machine.79 ,is a retaining-pawl. The collectorwheel would be arranged below therollers 51LL 50". The driving mechanism is so arranged that the ratchet75 is moved one tooth at a time and turns the wheel through an arcsufficient to move the compartments round one at a time. If it isdesired to make the check-books with fifty sheets or leaves to eachbook, then the speed of the wheel is arranged to be such that eachcompartment remains stationary until ftyleaves have dropped down into itfrom the delivery-tapes running between the rollers 51 and 50, Fig. 2.Owing to the peculiar shape or curve of the partitions, the leaves asthey fall into the compartment lie one upon the other in their propersequential order. (See the lines at Gn), When'the fifty sheets havefallen into the compartment, the wheel turns automatically and bringsthe next compartment under the delivery-tapes. As the wheel revolves itdischarges the contents of each compartment onto a table or travelingband, and as the leaves are all in order they have merely to be takenaway and bound up into books.

If desired, instead of having the hopperwheel arrangement I may use asimple traveling band (or band of tapes) 80, which is arranged on thedelivery -table 67 and runs round the rollers 81 82. This band has anintermittent motion imparted to it by means of ratchet-gear 83, (seealso Fig. 3,) driven by means of the rod 84 and bell-crank 85 from theface-cam 86 by means of the lever 87, fulcrumed at 87, The worm 88 ofthe shaft 14 revolves the worm-wheel 89 and cam 86, and the inclines 86aof thelatter actuate the lever 87 and bell-crank, and thereby move thepawland-ratchet gear. 90 is a retracting-spring which acts on thebell-crank. The cam is preferably arranged to actuate the ratchet twicein each revolution, and the whole mechanism is so made that the bandremains at rest until the desired number of leaves or sheets have fallenfrom between the rollers 51*L 50a to form a book when the band movesforward a certain distance and again .stops until another series ofleaves is collected suflicient to form another book, when it is againmoved, and so on. The cam 86 is adapted for giving two such movements(sufficient to allow collections of fifty leaves between each movement)at each revolution. If it is desired to collect other numbers, then thecam requires to be changed, and this can be easily done, as it is onlykeyed on its shaft. Of course it is self-evident that any other suitableform of cam or equivalent mechanism can be employed instead of themechanism shown. The intermittent traveling band 80 practically performsthe same work as the hopper-wheel. If the latter is used, it can bedriven by mechanism of a character similar to that shown for actuatingthe band.

The mechanisms can of course be altered or modied to suit the differentclasses of work` which it is desired to print and number, or to numbermerely, and after a careful perusal of the foregoing description it willbe quite evident to one skilled in the art, without further detailedinformation, how such slight alterations or adaptations can be carriedout.

Having now fully describedl my invention, what I claim, and desire tosecure by Letters Patent, is-

1. In combination, cylinders for numbering and printing paper, means forrotating the cylinders, numbering-wheels, means for actuating thenumbering-wheels, means for dividing the paper into sheets, means forfolding the sheets, a traveling collecting-table operated by a ratchet,a pawl, a rod connected with the pawl, .levers connected to the rod, aspring, a face-cam, and worm-gear for driving said cam, substantially asdescribed.

2. In combination, cylinders having numbering-wheels for numbering andprinting paper, means for rotating the cylinders, means for actuatingthe numbering-wheels,means for dividing the paper into sheets, means forfolding the sheets, a cam having inclines thereon, lever mechanismoperated by the inclines of said cam, wormgear for driving `the cam,

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ratchet mechanism, and anl endless traveling band which serves' as acollecting-table, substantially'as described.

3. In combination, cylinders for numbering and printing paper, means forrotating the cylinders, numbering-wheels, means for actuating thenumbering-wheels, means for dividing .the paper into sheets, a cam,mechanism for adapted to revolve in a plane at right angles to the planeof revolution of the cylinder, said cylinder' having the body and endsmade in one piece and provided with a cross-bridge and side pieces whichlatter are removably fastened to the body and bridge in order that thenumbering-wheels can readily be removed or changed whenever desired,substantially as described. l

5. In combination, a hollow rotary numbering or numbering and printingcylinder, numbering-wheels arranged within the cylinder and adapted torevolve in a plane at right angles to the plane of revolution of thecylinder, and mechanism for automatically revolving the wheelscomprising a cam, a rocking bar, a cam thereon, a slide actuated by thecam, a swinging arm operated by said slide and pawl-and-ratchet gear,substantially as described.

6. In combination, cylinders for numbering and printing paper, means forrotating the cylinders, numbering-wheels, means for actuating thenumbering-wheels, means for dividing the paper into sheets, a cam,mechanism for operating the cam, a reciprocating sheet-folding vknifeoperated by the cam, recesses in the knife-blade, a double arrangementof tapes running on rollers for receiving, pressing and delivering thefolded sheets of paper, and means for collecting the folded sheets intobunches ready to be bound into books, substantially as described.

7. In a machine for consecutively numbering sheets of paper for use incheck-books, salesmens books and the like, means for printing similarnumbers consecutively upon opposite sides of different portions of thesame sheets, tapes for carrying the printed sheets forward, means forfolding the said printed sheets, said means comprising a reciprocatingfolding-knife having recesses therein to clear the said tapes and meansfor receiving, pressing and delivering the folded sheets ready to bebound into books, every page of which is adjacent a similarly-numberedpage.

8. In a machine for consecutively numbering sheets of paper for use incheck-books, salesmens books and the like, means for printing similarnumbers consecutively upon opposite sides of different portions of thesame sheets` tapes for carrying the printed sheets forward, means forfolding the said printed sheets, said means comprisinga reciprocatingfolding-knife having recesses therein to clear the said tapes, a systemof rollers and a double arrangement of tapes vrunning upon the rollersand arranged to receive, press and deliver the sheets of paper ready tobe bound into a book.

9. In a machine for consecutively numbering sheets of paper for use incheck-books, salesmens books and the like, means for printing similarnumbers consecutivelyjupon opposite sides of diiferent portions of thesame sheets, tapes for carrying the printed sheets forward, asheet-folding means comprising a vertically-reciprocating knife with abroad blade having a number of recesses therein to clear the said tapes,guides for the knife, cam mechanism for reciprocating the knife and adouble arrangement of tapes running on rollers for receiving, pressingand delivering the sheets of paper ready to be bound into a book.

l0. In a machine for consecutively numbering sheets of paper for use incheck-books, salesmens books and the like,means for printing similarnumbers consecutively upon opposite sides of different portions of thesame sheets, tapes for carrying the printed sheets forward, asheet-folding means comprising a vertically-reciprocating knife with abroad blade having a number of recesses therein to clear the said tapes,rollers arranged above the lfolding-knife for receiving the sheets afterbeing folded and a double arrangement of tapes for receiving, pressingand delivering the sheets ready to be bound into a book.

Signed at Glasgow, Scotland, this 18th day of March, 1904:.

DAVID CARLAV, SR. DAVID CARLAW, JUNR. ALEXR. LYLE CARLAW. J. W. CARLAW.

Witnesses WILLIAM FLEMING, ROBERT FRASER.

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